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Monsoon hampers Pakistan black box search

A Pakistani soldier searches at the site of the wreckage of a crashed passenger plane on the day after the accident in The Margalla Hills on the outskirts of Islamabad on July 29, 2010.

Monsoon rain and cloud hampered the search for the black box of a Pakistani airliner that slammed into hilly woodland killing all 152 people on board.

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